Interorganizational ties and organizational outcomes : essays on the role of network ties and ecological factors in the U.S. venture capital industry, 1961-2002
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation integrates relational (network) factors emphasized by the social exchange perspective and ecological factors emphasized by population ecology and demography to account for organizational outcomes. It includes three essays that analyze the ways in which interorganizational ties and ecological factors interact to affect organizational outcomes. The first essay shows that firms with wide market niches depend on alliances with other organizations for survival more than do organizations with narrower niches. It also demonstrates that generalist and specialist organizations increase their survival chances by exploiting resources complementary through interorganizational ties with each other. The second essay distinguishes between two types of centrality in a network: status centrality and hub centrality and analyzes their effects on organizational outcomes and mutual dynamics. Results indicates that status centrality positively affects access to and quality of market resources available to organizations as well as their survival and that hub centrality has no effect on these outcomes. Finally, the third essay finds that status increases an organization's chances of survival the most in periods where survival chances are lowest due to environmental (ecological) factors. Status thus plays the role of a "safety net", allowing high status organizations to survive in periods where lower status organizations fail.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Makarevich, Alexey |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
| Primary advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Zhou, Xueguang |
| Advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Advisor | Zhou, Xueguang |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alexey Makarevich. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Alexey Makarevich
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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